TAILIEUCHUNG - A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

Tongue, Speech, Language.+-- We speak of the "English tongue" or of the "French language"; and we say of two nations that they "do not understand each other's speech." The existence of these three words-- +speech+, +tongue+, +language+-- proves to us that a language is something +spoken+,-- that it is a number of +sounds+; and that the writing or printing of it upon paper is a quite secondary matter. Language, rightly considered, then, is an +organised set of sounds+. These sounds convey a meaning from the mind of the speaker to the mind of the hearer, and thus serve to connect man with man | A Brief History of the English Language and by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 1 PART III. PART IV. PART III. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. PART IV. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. PART III. PART IV. A Brief History of the English Language and by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Brief History of the English Language and Literature Vol. 2 of 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at A Brief History of the English Language and by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 2 Title A Brief History of the English Language and Literature Vol. 2 of 2 Author John Miller Dow Meiklejohn Release Date June 3 2007 EBook 21665 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Produced by Louise Hope Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note This file is intended for users whose text readers cannot display the real unicode utf-8 version. Characters that could not be fully displayed have been unpacked and shown in brackets -a vowel with long mark macron a vowel with short mark breve gh yogh If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter--or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage make sure your text reader s character set or file encoding is set to Unicode UTF-8 . You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort use the latin-1 version of the file instead. All Greek words were given in transliteration and have not been changed. Single italicized letters within words are .

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